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Nebraska Stories: Satisfying Surprises & More, 203

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January 18, 2011

Ten years after her full recovery from a serious accident, artist Margaret Berry is on the leading edge of the encaustic art. This excerpt features Ashfall Fossil Beds State Historical Park located in Royal, Nebraska. It gives a quick overview of the history and lives of the bison and other animals found there. From Restless Prairie, 1996.Producer Michele Wolford, Editor John Beck. Not much has changed in the one-room schoolhouse that was built in 1879 in Otoe County. It shut its doors for good in 1997, but a few years later, former student Betty Stukenholtz bought it to save it.NET Televisions Ron Hull introduces an interview with famous Nebraska Writer Mari Sandoz taped in the NET studios in 1961 (excerpted from 'Past, Present, Future'). Author of classics like 'Old Jules' and 'Crazy Horse', Sandoz told Hull that she would 'rather face a rattlesnake than those cameras.' But she is relaxed and revealing as she talks about her struggle to become a writer.From Carl Sandberg: Prayers for the People, producer Sue Maryott. "Wide Missoura" from The American Songbag, 1927, performed by Mike Adams and The Sandtones.